USA team head coach Steve Kerr and assistant coach Erik Spoelstra gather their players during a practice session Thursday.THE Naismith Trophy is part of the prize package for winners of the Basketball World Cup. It made a whirlwind tour over the last few weeks, including a stop in Las Vegas where US guard Tyrese Haliburton got to spend a little time in its company.“It’s nice to see it,” Haliburton said. “It’ll be nicer if we bring it home.
“We’re going to compete. We’re going to play as hard as we can. We’re going to try to win a gold medal,” US coach Steve Kerr said. “If we don’t, we understand there will be plenty of criticism and we’re OK with that. But our approach is, this is incredibly fun, we’re unbelievably fortunate to be able to do this and to compete and know that we did everything we could. We’re putting in the effort. We want to win. But whatever happens happens — and we’ll live with that.
Qualifying for this event started more than two years ago, with 80 hopefuls getting pared down to the 32 nations that are in Asia for the next couple weeks. Teams were placed into a four-team group; the top two teams in each of the eight groups makes the second round. Some nations fully understand that they would need to pull off the upset of upsets to advance.
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